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Top 25 Creative agency recruiters based in New Zealand

RevenueBase identified 140 creative agency recruiters headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026 and tracks 869 professional contacts across them, including 375 with verified work emails. Auckland is the largest hub.

This list covers creative agency recruiters headquartered in New Zealand, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 27, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
140Companies
869Contacts tracked
375Verified emails
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The 25 largest creative agency recruiters based in New Zealand

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 140 creative agency recruiters based in New Zealand, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 27, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to creative agency recruiters: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200139 contacts →

Partial evidence

“In 2025, Sweetshop became a certified B Corp, a sustainable framework that reflects the values we want to see in our industry: inclusive, ethical, and creatively fearless.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
2Partial evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5042 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PHQ is an independent, digitally-led creative agency based in Auckland, founded by Phantom London (phantom.land).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
3Indirect evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5038 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Hunter Campbell, we are leaders searching for leaders.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
4Partial evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5036 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Motion Sickness is an New Zealand-based creative company and one of the leading independent advertising agencies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
5Indirect evidenceWellington, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5033 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Connecting Excellence We are drawn to businesses and people who aspire to excellence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
6Indirect evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5025 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Hello!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
7Indirect evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are Hula.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
8Partial evidenceAuckland Wellington, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5018 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Federation is the Top 3 ranked, independent creative agency, partnering with local and global brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
9Indirect evidenceTakapuna, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We partner with organisations across Aotearoa to secure exceptional talent, and we support professionals to find meaningful, fulfilling careers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
10Partial evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5017 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are True - an independent creative and digital experience agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
11Partial evidenceTe Aro, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5017 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The full-service agency holding creativity and marketing hand-in-hand.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
12Indirect evidenceTauranga, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Wave Agency is a full-service brand communications agency, providing strategic business and brand development services, marketing strategy, media buying and advertising and design…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
13Indirect evidenceChristchurch, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Being loud is not enough.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
14Partial evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-1011 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Creative Store is your specialist recruitment agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
15Indirect evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-1011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Charm Independent.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
16Indirect evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Hiring in digital is rarely simple.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
17Indirect evidenceAuckland Central, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are a results-driven advertising agency Established in 2002, we have grown to become one of New Zealand’s leading independently owned agencies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
18Indirect evidenceInvercargill, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Naked approach is stripped back.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
19Indirect evidenceFreemans Bay, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Marsden Inch is New Zealand’s leading specialist in advertising, marketing, media and communications recruitment.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
20Partial evidenceTauranga, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5010 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are a full-service, independent creative and media agency who are powered by an incredible team of passionate professionals, we are a group of thinkers, doers, problem solvers…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
21Partial evidenceTakapuna, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-508 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We’re a New Zealand indie creative agency with a hunger for creating work that gets people talking.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
22Indirect evidenceDunedin Central, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Walsh & Beck is a marketing and design agency that specialises in developing common sense marketing strategies and tools for a wide variety of organisations throughout New Zealand.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
23Partial evidenceMount Maunganui, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-508 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Full-service creative agency partnering with ambitious brands for design that disrupts categories, packaging that opens possibilities, digital that sparks connections and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
24Partial evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-108 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Redfire is an independent full-service creative agency specialising in full-funnel marketing, branding, design and advertising.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
25Partial evidenceUpper Hutt, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Based in Wellington we're creative production experts delivering Video, Photo, and Copywriting projects that speak to people.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026

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Creative agency recruiters based in New Zealand at a glance

As of Sep 27, 2026
43.2%Verified-email coverage
6.2Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
55.7%Largest-city concentration · Auckland
Sep 27, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
111
11-50
26
51-200
2

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for New Zealand, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for New Zealand, over 140 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among creative agency recruiters, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in New Zealand whose own description of what they do matches “creative agency recruiters”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names creative agency recruiters), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among creative agency recruiters, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside New Zealand are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 375 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Creative agency recruiters by metro

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names creative agency recruiters, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many creative agency recruiters are there based in New Zealand?

RevenueBase identified 140 creative agency recruiters headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

The Sweetshop, headquartered in Auckland, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most creative agency recruiters?

Auckland leads with 78 headquartered companies, followed by Christchurch (16) and Wellington (8).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 375 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 140 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.